Sidney Nolan 'Birds and Landscape' contemporary “is an act of divination

“is an act of divination by entrails

Dimensions: 68 x 53 x 2 cm

one of a series of works Jacks created about metropolises

a portrait in silvers and blue

this subject appears unaware of our presence

Sidney Nolan 'Birds and Landscape' contemporary “is an act of divinationBirds nest throughout Sidney Nolans work, some soar, some are flightless, some whimsical and some brooding. In the shades of their existence the artist saw himself, how the oscillate between being ungainly and in command of the skies. In this original mixed media on paper, Nolans birds dart across the sky. They are flashes of pastel against a glowering sky, perhaps flying to evade an encroaching storm. Interested in cave paintings, Nolans experimental